Hull & Woad chase home win at Women's Open
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- Charley Hull tricked caddie Adam Woodward by handing him a fake £100,000 lottery ticket bought from a Blackpool joke shop, telling BBC Sport she "felt really bad" when she had to reveal the prank
- Hull has finished runner-up in five majors, with her most recent near-miss coming when world number one Nelly Korda held her off at June's US Open despite clutch putts on the closing holes
- Lottie Woad, ranked fifth in the world at age 22, plays the Women's Open for only the third time but has posted top-10s in her two prior appearances and won the Scottish Open in her professional debut
- The championship is staged at Royal Lytham and St Annes, where Scotland's Catriona Matthew won in 2009 and England's Georgia Hall triumphed in 2018 — both at age 22 in Hall's case
- Woad held the halfway lead at the Evian Championship earlier this month before finishing behind Haeran Ryu, who has now won back-to-back majors
- Woad lost a playoff to Miyu Yamashita at the Meijer LPGA Classic in June after missing a short putt on the final green, a defeat she cites as a lesson in not being "too hard on yourself"
Why it matters: Royal Lytham has crowned a UK champion in two of its last three Women's Open stagings, and with Hull desperate to convert five close calls and Woad arriving as the form British player at world number five, home fans have a rare double shot at ending the drought — the pressure Hull flagged is the fear of "letting everyone down" at a venue where the poster wall already reminds her what she's missing.
